Harness.



PATENTED vAUG. 4, 1908. E. B. GUERIN.

HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.Z4, 1906.

INVENTOR Edwazdbiaerz'n ATTORNEYS EDWARD B. GUERIN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed March 24, 1906. Serial No. 307,841.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. GUERIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to an improvement in harness and has for its purpose to provide means for attachment between the collar and neck yoke, which will provide for a closer and stronger hitch than is ordinarily obtained, and which will render the harness less expensive.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a substitute for the usual collar in a racing or speeding harness, which will render it more economic and lighter than ordinarily, and which will bring the neck yoke conveniently close to the animals breast.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the breast irons employed in a double harness, the neck yoke and connections between the said irons and neck yoke, a portion of the pole also appearing in plan View; Fig. 2 is a section taken through a breast iron, the neck yoke and the connection between the breast iron and the neck yoke, the section being drawn upon an enlargedscale and taken practically on the line 22 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a front elevation of an end of the neck yoke, the central portion of a breast iron and the connecting strap between the two; and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the lower portion of the collar and end of a neck yoke, illustrating the same form of connection in'the other figures applied to the collar and the neck yoke.

A represents a pole, B a neck yoke provided with the customary strap 10 for receiving the end of the pole and 0 represents the breast irons which are employed instead of the ordinary collars C. These breast irons are provided at each side of their centers with bosses 11, and their ends 12 are more or less rearwardly curved and terminate in eyes 13, to which eyes hold-back braces or straps 14 are suitably attached.

D represents the strap connections beneck yoke.

tween the breast irons C and the neck yoke B. These connections consist of two leather loops, an outer loop 15 and an inner loop 16, and the straps forming the said loops 15 and 16 are made wide near their forward or lower ends, as is best shown at 17 in Figs. 1 and 3; and in the wider portion 17 of the strap loops 15 and 16, transverse openings 18 are made in the two straps at the front and at the rear, the openings 18 being in alinement, as is best shown in Fig. 2. The upper portions of the loops 15 and 16 are just wide enough to fit between the bosses 11 of thebreast irons C, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and these strap loops 15 and 16, when so placed, are fixed in position by transverse lines of stitching 18, as is shown in Fig. 2, the stitching being above the upper edges of the said slots 18, whereby the loop straps 15 and 16 are practically divided into a lower and large chamber (1, open at each side and having the slots or openings 18therein, and an upper chamber (1, which receives the breast irons C, as is shown in Fig. 2.

A billet '19 is secured to the under face of each outer strap loop 16, and these billets are then passed over the upper ends of the outer loop strap 15, andthe free ends of said billets are adapted to be passed down through the registering openings 18 in the said loop straps, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2.

When an end of the neck yoke ispassed into the lower chamber d of a strap connection D, the eye 20 of the neckyoke at its end is made to face to the rear, and is brought into registry with the openings 18 in the connecting straps, and the billets 19, when passed through the said connecting straps, are likewise passed through the said eyes 20 of the In harnessing, the martingales 21 are likewise passed through the said slots 18, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2.

It will be noticed that the improvement is adapted for attachment to the breast piece, whether said piece is the breast collar or breast iron. The breast irons, when used, materially reduce the weight of a double harness and enable an exceedingly close hitch to be obtained. The hold-back braces or straps 14 are carried upward and rearward and are attached to the saddle or pad.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated the application of the connecting loop straps D to the hames 23 of an ordinary collar C, wherein the said connecting strap loops, which are of the same construction as those heretofore described,

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-

1. A substitute coupling for yoke straps,

consisting of strap loops connected to form an upper and a lower compartment, the lower compartment being of greater size, the said strap loops having registering openings in their forward and rear faces at the larger compartment, and a billet secured to an end of the strap loops, the free end of which billet is adapted to pass through said registering openings in the said strap loops.

2. In harness, a breast strap iron rearwardly curved at its ends and provided at said ends with means for attachment to a trace, and overlying strap loops provided with openings extending through from front to'rear, connected with the central portion of the'breastiromsaid strap loops being adapted to receive an end of a neck yoke, and

a billet secured to the upper portion of the strap loops, the free end whereof is adapted to pass through the said openings.

3. In a harness, the combination with a breast piece, of strap loops lying one within the other, secured to the breast piece at their upper ends and provided between their ends with registering openings in their forward seasea strap loops attached at their upper ends to the central portion of the breast piece, the strap loops being provided with registering openings in their forward and rear faces, and a billet attached to the upper end. of the stra p loops, the free end of which is adapted to pass through the registering openings in the strap loops.

5. In harness, a breast iron having its ends rearwardly curved and terminating in eyes. the said. iron being provided with a boss at each side of the center, of strap loops ar ranged one within the other, which strap loops are received on the iron. between the said bosses and secured thereto, both strap loops being provided with transverse openings extending through the front and rear members, and a billet attached to the upper portion of the strap loops, the free end of which billet is adapted to pass through the said openings in the strap loops for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my my name to this specification in the presmieo of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD B. GUERIN.

I/Vitnesses:

J. FRED. AOKER, Evnnann B. MAnsnALL. 

